2023 Hugos nomination stats!!
Jan. 20th, 2024 12:44 pmI believe we've hit 90 days later and they became required to release these. Here.
I don't understand their charts or EPH well enough to follow exactly what happened in Novel. It looks like Babel was third in raw nominations, and then has a value that doesn't change between subsequent rounds while other things are eliminated, and is just low enough at the end to not make the ballot, but also has an asterisk with a note that google-translates to "it wasn't eligible". I think there are some big questions here. Other than that, the first runner-up was something Chinese, and then Mountain in the Sea, which is neat to see it make it that far. Half-Built Garden also on the longlist.
In Novella, Prayer for the Crown-Shy is listed as having Declined Nomination, which is definitely a different annotation than Babel.
The Novelettes have both a Not Eligible and a Declined Nomination from SB Divya, who had said back in June that she was declining. "Turing Food Court" also seems to be on the list twice??
In screamtastic news Across a Field of Starlight got one less nomination than Supergirl. So close. So fucking close. And Other Ever Afters made the longlist too.
In Fan Writer, Paul Weimer (third most ballots, "not eligible") is on File 770 saying this is news to him and he'd like an explanation. He was a finalist in 2020, 21, and 22.
Xiran Jay Zhao was Not Eligible for the Astounding despite having been a first-year nominee in 2022. Zhao's final number is higher than Xin Weimu's, who did end up on the ballot.
I don't want to be like "soooo, I guess China could not be trusted with a Worldcon after all" but seriously, what the fuck happened here.
I don't understand their charts or EPH well enough to follow exactly what happened in Novel. It looks like Babel was third in raw nominations, and then has a value that doesn't change between subsequent rounds while other things are eliminated, and is just low enough at the end to not make the ballot, but also has an asterisk with a note that google-translates to "it wasn't eligible". I think there are some big questions here. Other than that, the first runner-up was something Chinese, and then Mountain in the Sea, which is neat to see it make it that far. Half-Built Garden also on the longlist.
In Novella, Prayer for the Crown-Shy is listed as having Declined Nomination, which is definitely a different annotation than Babel.
The Novelettes have both a Not Eligible and a Declined Nomination from SB Divya, who had said back in June that she was declining. "Turing Food Court" also seems to be on the list twice??
In screamtastic news Across a Field of Starlight got one less nomination than Supergirl. So close. So fucking close. And Other Ever Afters made the longlist too.
In Fan Writer, Paul Weimer (third most ballots, "not eligible") is on File 770 saying this is news to him and he'd like an explanation. He was a finalist in 2020, 21, and 22.
Xiran Jay Zhao was Not Eligible for the Astounding despite having been a first-year nominee in 2022. Zhao's final number is higher than Xin Weimu's, who did end up on the ballot.
I don't want to be like "soooo, I guess China could not be trusted with a Worldcon after all" but seriously, what the fuck happened here.